Product Designer, VRChat
Growth Team
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Virtual world platform
Posted today
Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Stock Options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build VRChat into one of the most successful community-driven social VR platforms in existence.
Role
Who you are
- This is a great fit for a designer who enjoys building the invisible glue that helps users succeed. If you have experience solving growth problems, value clarity, and can create seamless, cross-platform UX, we’d love to hear from you!
- You have 4+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products, and at least 2 years working directly on or contributing to a design system
- You’re comfortable with design systems and love contributing to scalable, modular UI that makes the whole product more coherent. You have strong familiarity with Figma component libraries
- You’re motivated by impact. You enjoy connecting your work to measurable outcomes and iterating quickly based on what you learn
- You’re a strong communicator who can explain design tradeoffs and walk others through the “why” behind your decisions
- You understand that done is better than perfect, and you know when to prioritize momentum over polish
- You’re never done learning, and you love to teach others what you’ve learned. You approach design challenges with curiosity, always seeking better ways to scale, support, and evolve how teams build together
- You operate autonomously. You take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. And you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way
Desirable
- Familiarity with growth levers such as referrals, notifications, upsell flows, or lifecycle messaging
- Experience designing for 3D, VR, AR, or spatial interfaces, and an understanding of the design challenges unique to immersive environments
- Comfort designing across multiple input modes (mouse, touch, gamepad, VR controllers, hand tracking)
- A personal interest in social VR, online communities, or the future of digital self-expression
What the job involves
- Join our Growth team and shape the UX that welcomes new users into VRChat and keeps them coming back
- From onboarding flows and platform entry points to cross-platform navigation and feature discovery, you’ll work alongside a design lead to drive features that expand the reach and daily value of VRChat’s social ecosystem
- Collaborate with your design lead, PMs, and engineers to design high-impact features across the user lifecycle: onboarding, activation, re-engagement, and retention
- Craft intuitive, welcoming experiences that help new users get oriented, especially those entering via mobile, desktop, or non-VR pathways
- Turn fuzzy problem spaces into tangible product design and validate your work with team feedback, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing
- Help us explore and integrate Figma plugins, design tokens, or other emerging workflows that improve design velocity and collaboration. We’re especially excited by folks who stay curious and aren’t afraid to try what’s new and next
- Collaborate across teams to ensure that growth features are integrated thoughtfully into the broader product ecosystem
- Codify system guidance and documentation so it’s usable by product teams, engineers, and community contributors alike
- Contribute to a culture of human-centered systems thinking and champion high-quality craft across design and engineering
Our take
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. VRChat offers a free-to-play metaverse platform where users gather as avatars in virtual spaces to socialize and hang out, just as one would in real life.
Whilst competitor Rec Room has a greater valuation, VRChat has positioned itself as the leading VR socializing-based product. It taps into a modern desire to form connections in digital spaces, with some users meeting their real-life partners in their virtual avatar form. When contemplating VR’s popularity, it cannot be denied that virtual realities enable freedom of self-expression, an attractive proposition perhaps for those who struggle with their identity and place in the real world.
The company recently announced a 30% workforce reduction, addressing overhiring during its 2021 boom. Despite these layoffs, the company remains focused on long-term growth and capital efficiency, positioning itself for continued success as VR becomes a key part of social connection.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out.
- Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada.
- Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun.
- Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role.
- Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team.
- Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Graham Gaylor
(Co-Founder & CEO)Interned at SmartVault, RSM Design, Equivalent DATA, and Seismic Exchange, before spending time at ChaiONE as an iOS Developer at at Zynga as a Software Engineer.
Jesse Joudrey
(Co-Founder & CTO)Owner and CTO at Jespionage Entertainment. Began as a Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada before co-founding and serving as CTO for A.C.R.O.N.Y.M Games Inc.
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